Yeah good point, I have no idea how many seats UA needs to make money on the deuce. For simplicity, 70% of an RJ2 is 35 pax. 70% of 738 is 113 pax. 4 slots that’s 140 rev pax to break even. 4 slots on a 738 is 452 pax. That means in our generic scenario UA has to sell 312 more tickets per day to keep those slots, that won’t happen. Reduce price’s to compete with ULCC’s? Now you have to sell more tickets to break even.

Not to mention, now they have no edge with offering 4-5 time slots a day. ULCC’s have to be licking their chops.